ReviewEnvironmental monitoring and assessment2015
Transfer of heavy metals through terrestrial food webs: a review.
Review in Environmental monitoring and assessment, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 158 papers.
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158 citing papers in PubMed, 866 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Blood Levels of Different Trace Elements in the Endangered Iberian Lynx (Lynx pardinus) and Their Association with Endogenous and Exogenous Factors.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Health Risk Assessment of Dietary Arsenic Exposure and Selenium Deficiency in Tibet Based on In Vitro Gastrointestinal Simulation.ACS omega · 2026Article
- Tooth Enamel as a Biogeochemical Archive of Trace Elements in an Urban Population: A Multielement Study from Beijing, China.Biological trace element research · 2026Article
- Cadmium toxicokinetics differ between forest and city colonies of the ant Temnothorax nylanderi (Formicidae: Myrmicinae) (Foerster, 1850).Ecotoxicology (London, England) · 2026Article
- Metals and Metalloids Accumulation and Biomagnification in Three Commercially Important Fishes from a Turkish Brackish Lake.Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology · 2026Article
- Heavy Metal Pollution and Assessment of the Bioaccumulation Potential of Earthworms from the Soil of Punjab, Pakistan.Biology · 2026Article
- Bioaccumulation of Heavy Metals (17 Elements) in the Liver and Kidneys of the Least Weasel (Toxics · 2026Article
- Nickel in agri-food systems: a review.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Review
- Emerging inorganic nanomaterial-based electrochemical sensors for heavy metal detection in food: Advances, challenges, and prospects.Current research in food science · 2026Review
- Effect of taxonomy and feeding guilds on waterbirds of the Southern Caspian Sea, Iran.PloS one · 2026Article
- Bioaccumulation of Potential Harmful Elements in Fossorial Water Voles Inhabiting Non-Polluted Crops.Toxics · 2025Article
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- Heavy metal contamination in urban agriculture: evidence from Nairobi.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2025Article
- Contamination by Potentially Toxic Elements (PTEs) in Agricultural Products Grown Around Sepetiba Bay, Rio de Janeiro State (SE Brazil).Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology · 2025Article
- A new azo dye for colorimetric determination of lead(ii) ions.RSC advances · 2025Article
- Role of Serotonin in Cadmium Mitigation in Plants.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Source identification, accumulation and dispersion of heavy metals pollution into the surface sediments of urban runoff (case study, channels of Tehran City).Journal of environmental health science & engineering · 2025Article
- Geochemical Speciation, Uptake, and Transportation Mechanisms of Arsenic, Cadmium, and Lead in Soil-Rice Systems: Additional Aspects and Challenges.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- The Bioaccumulations of Metal(loid)s in the Tissues of Invasive Carassius gibelio (Bloch, 1782) Fish from the Kızılırmak River (Türkiye) and Health Risk Assessment.Biological trace element research · 2025Article
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Heavy metals are released into the environment by both anthropogenic and natural sources. Highly reactive and often toxic at low concentrations, they may enter soils and groundwater, bioaccumulate in food webs, and adversely affect biota. Heavy metals also may remain in the environment for years, posing long-term risks to life well after point sources of heavy metal pollution have been removed. In this review, we compile studies of the community-level effects of heavy metal pollution, including heavy metal transfer from soils to plants, microbes, invertebrates, and to both small and large mammals (including humans). Many factors contribute to heavy metal accumulation in animals including behavior, physiology, and diet. Biotic effects of heavy metals are often quite different for essential and non-essential heavy metals, and vary depending on the specific metal involved. They also differ for adapted organisms, including metallophyte plants and heavy metal-tolerant insects, which occur in naturally high-metal habitats (such as serpentine soils) and have adaptations that allow them to tolerate exposure to relatively high concentrations of some heavy metals. Some metallophyte plants are hyperaccumulators of certain heavy metals and new technologies using them to clean metal-contaminated soil (phytoextraction) may offer economically attractive solutions to some metal pollution challenges. These new technologies provide incentive to catalog and protect the unique biodiversity of habitats that have naturally high levels of heavy metals.
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